204 . . formerly abounded in this parish; the mines are not Nedgehill is a hamlet and tithing, 1 mile south. now worked : there are stone quarries, excellent build­ Parish Clerk, William Curti~>. ing stone and marl being found here. The charities, Post, M. 0., T. & 'l'elephonic Express Delivery Office.­ consisting of the rent of Chew Down, containing about Mrs. Catherine Collis, sub-p()Stmistress. Letters are 13 acres, which was formerly an open common, but is received through Bath; delivered at 6 a.m. & 3 p.m.; now enclosed, and produces an annual rental of £2o, sundays, 6 a.m.; dispatched at 11.15 a.m. & 7·45 devoted to the support of the National schoo'J.. Ashcott p.m.; sundays, 7·45 p.m lands, consisting of 14 acres, were purchased in 18II Wall Letter Boxes, Bathway, cleared 11.10 a.m. & 7 so by a legacy of John Dory, gentleman, who died in 1765, p.m. week days & 7.50 p.m. sundays; Cutler's Green, and produce £ro yearly; this amount was formerly cleare.J II.I5 a.m. & 7·55 p.m.; sunday, 7·55 p.m. & devised for the use Df the school, but under the "Local Ford, cleared 10.50 a.m. & 7.10 p.m.; sundays, 5 30 Government Act, 18q4," was appropriated to the relief p.m of the rates. Chewton P~iory, the seat of the Earl Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1859 & Waldegrave P.C., J.P., V.D. is a modern mansion in the enlarged in 19II, for 149 children; average attendance, Tudor style. Chewton House is the residence of I 17 ; George J ames Cox, master William Tucker esq. Earl Waldegrave is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is light, with GREEN ORE, formerly a parish, was on March 25th, a subsoil of limestone; the land is chiefly devoted to 1885, by Local Government Board Order 18,162, annexed grazing. The acreage is 5,855; rateable value, £7,616; to Chewton Mendip for civil purposes by the Divided fhe populatiDn in I.9II was 663 in the civ.il and 886 in Parishes Act; it is 3! miles north-east from Wells. .A. the ecclesiastical parish (which includes Emborrow, cottage is used for service on Sundays. The principal and parts of , Compt-on Martin and North Wid­ landowners are Edward Cazalet Meade esq. of Seaton, combe). and Mrs. Meade. The soil is light sand; subsoil, lime­ stone. The chief crops are oats and roots. NORTH WIDCOMBE is a hamlet and tithing in this This place is reputed to be extra-parochial for eccle­ parish, about 3! miles north-by-west, in Clutton union; siastical purposes. area, 7II acres; rateable value, £797; population in The children of this place attend the school at Chewton 19II, 65. Mendip CHn-uEWTON MENDIP. Clavey John, haulier Oak£>s Rees (Mrs.),frmr.Hippisleys fm Waldegrave Earl P.C., V.D., J.P. Cornelius Waiter, cycle agent Payne Sarah Ann (Mrs.), farmer Chewton priory, Bath; & 20 Bryan­ Cox Mary (Mrs.) & Son, farmers, Pearce Louisa (Mrs.), beer retailer ston sq W & Carlton club S W & Chewton Field farm Selway Frank Richard Doddrell, yeo Constitutional club W C, London Cm·tis Robert, blacksmith man, Double House farm Carter Percy Ralph, Brinnaur Dewdney Ernest, assistant overseer, Sheppard Ivan, farmer Curtis Mrs. Home~ene Dudwell farm ;:3heppard William, farmer Curtis William Reasey, Homedene Dewdney Ernest James, farmer & Speed George, farmer, Willis' farm Drury Alfred Edward, Ford house assessor & collector of taxes, Dud­ (postal address, , Wells) Flower John Henry, W oodside well farm Speed James, farmer, Gl'ove farm Hollis James, Waldegrave house Drury .Alfred Edward L.R.C.P. & S. Thayer Benj. farmer, Everards farm King Richard S. Chewton cottage ;Edin. physician & surgeon, & medi­ Tuckwell William Thomas, gardener McMurtrie Hugh, Navestock cottage cal officer & public vaccinator No. to William Tucker esq Pocock Rev. Theodore lnnes M.A. 5 district, Wells union & Post Office Uphill Jesse, blacksmith, Nedge hill (curate), Fern cottage medica~ officer, Ford house Watts Albt. Chas. farmr.East. End fm Tucker William, Chewton house Dudden Richd.Mogg,frmr.Manor frm Watts Hy.Rbt.farmer, West End farm YoungRev.Chas.M.A. (vicar),Vicarage Furze J ames, head gamekeeper to Welsman George Oliver, shopkeeper Earl Waldegrave Willcox Alfred, farmer, Nedge farm COMMERCIAL. Gill George H. shopkeeper • Charles T. cart, van & Baher Jarnes, fanner, Barrow house Habgood Ernest John, farmer waggon builder Ball .Tames F. farmer Harris C. W. ·& Co. general auto- Batt Frederick, builder mobile engineers & makers of the NORTH WIDCOMBE. Bishop .John, farmer, Eaker Hill farm "Mendip" motors, Cutler's green; (Letters received through West Harp- Brooks Edwin Orledge, head gardener T A " Harris ; " T N 2 Chewton tree, .) to Earl W aldegrave Mendip j Gay James, farmer, Widcombe farm Brown Albt. Lionel, farmr. Sage's fm Honeyborne Henry Joseph, butcher Gay Jas. Clement, farmer,Manor frm Carter William Hy. Freeborn, farmer, Horl~r Raymond, farmer Watts Edmund A. farmer Edgehills Priory farm Lew1s Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper farm (letters through East Harp- Chappell Hester (Mrs.), quarry Lovell Thomas Alfd. Dudden, farmer, tree) master, Nedge hill Franklyns farm Chard Charles Anstey, Waldegrave McMurtrie Hugh, estate agent to Earl GREEN ORE. Arms family & commercial hotel Waldegrave, Navestock cottage (Letters through Wells.) Church Charles, newspaper reporter, Milsom George, estate carpenter to James Harold, farmer, Rookery farm Bathway Earl W aldegrave Pearce William, farmer & heer retailer is a pret.ty village and parish, in a under the direction of :Mr. F. Bligh Bond F.R.I.B.A. of deep valley through which the Somer rivulet flows, Bristol: the oak cboir stalls were added in 1903-: there fonning miniature cascades in its course, with a station are sittings for 450 persons. The register dates from on the Somerset and Dorset joint railway, 7 miles north­ the year 1685. The living is a vicarage, net ~·early east from Wells, 6 north from , n! south­ value £200, including 11~ acres of glebe. with residence, west from Bath, 16 south-by-easrt from Bristol and 134 in the gift of trustees, and held since 1910 by the Rev. from London; it is in the Northern division of the county, Clement James Edwards M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford. hundred of Chewton, petty sessional division of Kilmer­ The vicarage .house was thoroughly renovated and srton, Glutton union, Temple Cloud county court district, altered in 19IJ. Here is a concert room capable of ruml deanery of Midaomer Norton, archdeaconry of Wells seating 200 persons. The Wesleyan chapel at Norton and diocese of Bath and Wells. 'fhe church of St. John Down is a building of local stone, erected in 1888 from is a building of stone in the Pointed style, re-erected and designs by Mr. 0. Baker, architect, of Swindon, at a enlar·geu in 1839, and consists of chancel, nave of four cost of £1,200: the pulpit and font are of serpentine bays, aisles, transepts, north porch and an em bwttled marble, the former being a memorial to John and Ann western tower containing 6 bells, rehung in 1903: there Steeds, of Norton Hall, given by John White and Mary are several marble tablets, and a monument to Mary, (Steeds) his wife; and the latter to Thomas Steeds, wife of Benjamin Harington gent. and daughter of late of Red House, given by his nepht>w, Albert J. Anthony Stocker esq. and Margaret (Capell) his wife; Steeds. The Parish room, in connection with the she died December 10, 1649: the east window is of four church, is used during the winter months as a club, lights, and has very delicate tracery of Early Perpen­ a:ad is supported by Capt. and Mrs. Streeten. The dicular character, and contains medallions with em­ charities consist of a bt>quest of £wo left by Henry blems of the Passion and sacred monograms: the Werret in 168I, the interest to be approp:Fiated to reredos is of solid cak, containing a text panel and apprenticing poor boys of the parish, and about 4os. re-table: in 1900 the interior was thoroughly restored a year, being the interest of £4o left by James BlackPr, and re-seated and an organ provided: in 1897 the of the parish of Binegar, to be distributed in bread chancel was rebuilt at a cost of £1,300, in the Perpen­ among the poor, half on old Christmas Eve and half in dicular style, of Pennant stone, with a massively-con­ June. At Blacker'.s Hill are traces of a Roman encamp­ eh ucted chancel arch, and the chancel laid with orna­ ment, with fosse roads from Bath and Ilcht"ster. ood­ mPntal and encaustic tiles and the church reseated lands is the residence of Captain Charles Paget

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